On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Victor Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The menu bar is always fixed at the top of the screen in Mac OS X and the > menu item changes > depending on which program is running in the foreground.
Oh that. I thought that's pretty neat. s: [snip] >> > When OSX is set to mirrored VGA config, an external projector would >> > completely >> > messup the display on the Mac screen. This experience is in various >> > departments in NUS, I guess some of the projectors are old. but.... I >> > expect >> > OSX to "just work" and it didn't. My current laptop with kubuntu works fine >> > with the same projectors. (And I can tweak xrandr to get exactly the res I >> > want...) >> >> Never had problem with this. I've been doing presentation with my OS >> X from the old, laupok ADM building to SOC1 and the newest of the >> new COM1, and it works great. Plus the dual-view is a great, great plus >> (especially when combined with Keynote presentation, again IMHO the >> greatest presentation software available right now.) > > The best resolution for a LCD screen will be its native resolution. When you > do Display Mirroring on a > projector that the Mac connects for the first time, it will default to a low > resolution. You then use the > Display preferences to set a higher resolution which the projector can > handle, preferably matching or > closely matching the native resolution of your Mac display. After that, you > Mac will "remember" the > settings when connected to the same projector (or rather the same > manufacturer and model). This way usually creates problem because most projector isn't widescreen. The best results I could achieve is using dual view, with the monitor on my MBP displaying the native LCD resolution and the second monitor (the projector) displaying the highest possible resolution for it. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's getting very useful now. I could display my cheatsheet on my MBP while doing the presentation. d: > >> > Maybe OSX works for some. But not for me. So, I will stay away from iPhone >> > too, wait for a sufficiently Open phone (android? openmoko?) >> >> If the preview is anything to peg my expectation on, I'll have hard >> time choosing between iPhone and a good Android phone (Android will >> depend a lot on the hardware; if you have lousy hardware, you can't >> have too high an expectation, but on iPhone grade hardware, looks >> like Android gonna shine a lot). > > After all, these are just tools for your usage and convenience. For me, user > interface and data > integration between devices are quite important to me. I will always be fond > of Linux and any OS that > is Unix-based, and since Mac OS X underlying layer is Unix-based and comes > with a great user > interface, I am more or less a Mac person now. (I really didn't consider the > Mac as my main machine > when it was still running on Mac OS Classic [version 9 and below] until Mac > OS X [which was based > on NextSTEP, Unix-based OS] came about. Yeah. Exactly what I thought. The UI is amazing, and it's UNIX-based, what more do I want? (True, sometime I need some software that's only available in other platforms; but if that's the only reason I'm using a computer, I'd be using Windows then.) Cheers, -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
